Chicano and Latino Studies

Department Chair: Rigoberto Rodriguez

Department Office: MHB 201

Telephone: (562) 985‑4644

Website: http://www.csulb.edu/chls

Faculty: Antonia Garcia-Orozco, Jacqueline Lyon, Jose F. Moreno, Loretta Ramirez, Rigoberto Rodriguez, Maythee Rojas, Abigail Rosas, Dario Valles

Emeritus Faculty: Luis Leobardo Arroyo, Gladys Garcia, Gen Ramirez, Victor Rodriguez

Department Administrative Support Coordinator: Michelle Seales

Students desiring information should contact the department office for referral to the academic advisor, or contact the College of Liberal Arts Advising Center (ATLAS) 

ATLAS

Telephone: (562) 985‑7804

Email: cla-atlas@csulb.edu

College: College of Liberal Arts  

Courses: CHLS  

Career Possibilities

Archivist • Community Organizer • Counselor • Creative Writer • Editor • Foreign Policy Officer • Journalist • Law • Linguist • Parole Officer • Probation Officer • Public Artist • Public Policy Administrator • Public Relations Consultant • Researcher • School Administrator • Social Worker • Teacher • Urban/Regional Planner • (Some of these, and other careers, require additional education or experience. For more information, see www.careers.csulb.edu.)

Programs

• Chicano and Latino Studies, B.A.

• Chicano and Latino Studies Minor

Courses

Note: General Education Category A must be completed prior to taking any upper-division course except upper-division language courses where students meet formal prerequisites and/or competency equivalent for advanced study.

• CHLS 100 - Introduction to Chicano and Latino Studies
• CHLS 101 - Introduction to Chicano/a and Latino/a Life
• CHLS 104A - Composition I
• CHLS 104B - Composition II
• CHLS 105 - Latina/o Cultural Identity
• CHLS 119 - Introduction to Racial and Ethnic Studies
• CHLS 140 - Introduction to Chicana/o and Latina/o History
• CHLS 150 - Introduction to Chicano Literary Studies
• CHLS 300 - Chicano History
• CHLS 303 - Farm Workers
• CHLS 305 - Chicana/o and Latina/o California History
• CHLS 310 - Chicana/o and Latina/o Thought and Action
• CHLS 319 - Racial and Ethnic Experience in the United States
• CHLS 320 - Wealth and Poverty in Latino Communities
• CHLS 330 - Critical Issues in Chicana and Latina Studies
• CHLS 335 - Asian and Latino Immigration Since World War II
• CHLS 340 - Latino Education in the U.S.
• CHLS 341 - Asian American and Chicano/Latino Cinema
• CHLS 345 - Latino/a Leadership in STEM
• CHLS 350 - The Latino Population in the United States
• CHLS 352 - Central American and Caribbean Peoples in California
• CHLS 360 - Chicana/o and Latina/o Rhetoric
• CHLS 362 - Latinas/os, Law and Public Policy
• CHLS 370 - Chicana/o and Latina/o Literature
• CHLS 375 - Latinas and the Prison System: A Comparative Perspective
• CHLS 380 - Chicano/Latino Theatre
• CHLS 385 - Beyond Racial Tensions: The Relational Racial Formation of Latinx Communities in the U.S.
• CHLS 390 - The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historic and Literary Images
• CHLS 400 - Chicana/o and Latina/o Politics in the U.S.
• CHLS 411 - Archival Quest: Reclaiming Latinx Rhetorics
• CHLS 412A - Centralizing Latinx Narratives: Seminar in Writing Self–Autoethnography
• CHLS 415 - Latina Women in the United States
• CHLS 420 - Chicano Heritage in the Arts of Mexico and the Southwest
• CHLS 421 - Street Gangs in Comparative Perspective
• CHLS 430 - The Latino Transnational Experience in the Caribbean: Empire, Reform and Revolution
• CHLS 450 - 1492 and Beyond
• CHLS 450A - Latinas and Revolution: Central America and Late 20th Century Mexico
• CHLS 470 - Latinas/Latinos: Health Status and Health Care Access
• CHLS 490 - Selected Topics in Chicano and Latino Studies
• CHLS 498 - Senior Colloquium
• CHLS 499 - Directed Studies
• CHLS 511 - Archival Quest: Reclaiming Latinx Rhetorics
• CHLS 512A - Centralizing Latinx Narratives: Seminar in Writing Self-Autoethnography
• CHLS 521 - Critical Perspectives in Chicanx/Latinx Studies